re: #164 McSpiff

Oh yeah. If you bring game theory into it, it goes fucking haywire all over the place. In that way, attempting to predict the behavior of corporations nears insanity. Humans are involved, after all.

However, when looking at the behavior of all corporations, a little bit of order is restored. But only a little.

I mean, look at Japan and the US. Both countries operate under capitalism, with freely-traded stocks. There isn’t a huge difference in the way the economies are set up in an abstract form.

However, there are absolutely gigantic differences in the culture of Japan and the US, and you can see that corporations in Japan operate very, very differently from the corporations in the US, in a ton of different ways. The easiest and most rational explanation for this is the cultural difference.